Significant People/Places
The founded (not current) capital of Russia.
What is St.Petersburg?
Founded this great metropolitan city.
What was St.Petersburg?
These were the trade events Russia was involved in.
What was silver and fur?
These are Russia's most important crops.
What are grains?
These forces fought against Russia in the Crimean War.
Who are the Ottoman Empire (French and British Forces)?
Name 2 of the Russian Empire's political achievements.
What was Expansion and Territorial Growth, Centralization of Power, or Administrative Reform?
This ruler put an end to Russian serfdom.
Who was Tsar Alexander II?
Russian Empire's cash crops.
What are Flax, Grains, and Potatoes.
The "tsar" of Russia, founder of the Russian Empire.
Who is Czar Peter?
True of False: The Russians had won the Crimean War which allowed them to expand further.
False
This religion posed a threat to the Russians.
What is Islam?
These were the traditional grains grown in Russia.
What were Rye and Oats?
Russia's longest ruling female ruler, her reign marks Russia's era of enlightenment.
Who is Catherine the Great?
What was the Trans-Siberian railway?
This was a system in which Russian peasants were “irrevocably” tied to their landlords. It is often compared to American slavery but not necessarily. The serfs were not owned instead the relationship of a serf and a landowner was based of land – “since you live on my land, you are bound to me.”
What was Serfdom?
This was mostly grown before the Emmancipation of Serfs. It was used mainly for export abroad.
What is wheat?
The empire stretched throughout these Eurasian territories.
What were Poland, Lithuania, Siberia, Caucasus, and Ottoman and Persian empires?
The center of astronomical studies during the nineteenth century.
This ruler gave religious tolerance to the Muslims.
Who was Catherine the Great?
This was an arrangement of peasant agriculture in Russia. It was scattered strips of land that were privately owned.
What was the open-field system?